I think I'm getting old. This is another thought that constantly runs through my brain so it's better out than in. I don't do Facebook, nor do I do Twitter. Forget Flickr, or MySpace. I'm not interested in any of these sites.
If I'm after instant gratification I pick up the phone. Over these past few years email has been enough to drive me to distraction. Why would I then subject myself to a social life based around banal social websites that allow me to speak and not communicate.
Here's a snapshot of a twitter page I fell upon tonight.
Now...I wasn't out looking for this page, it was presented to me on some website I was reading earlier. All up there in its glory for me to read. Doesn't this dialogue remind you of that bunch of girls at high school who thought they were cool and made your life hell? The ones who spoke about nothing but somehow managed to be in charge of all the important things such as how your hair should look, the length of your skirt, the boys you should talk to? (I've obliterated any references I could find on the page so as not to offend)
Facebook is not much better. I would just like to say for the record, I don't want to know what you are doing right now. I don't care if you are looking out the window thinking about lunch, or pondering your navel while you wait for a program to download. I also don't wish to find out what colour love heart I am, which of the Sex in the City girls I am, nor any of the other quizzes that are designed to waste my time. Oh and let me just say, DAVID NASH, the man I went for coffee with once I JUST DO NOT WISH TO BE YOUR FRIEND! ever!
It's a sad and scary world when so many of our population are wasting so much of their time talking and typing on little bitty phonepads. Do any of these people actually listen to/read the messages that come back, or do they think 'need to make mac casserole or beans and franks to use up the rest' is a valuable use of their time.
Please...talk to me when you have something good to say. Otherwise get a blog and don't tell anyone you have it. That way you can just burst your communication bubble all over the net, and not waste anyone's time. It works for me.
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